“Listen lady, if I saw a TV out here I’d get out my cannon and shoot it like I would a mad dog, right in the eye. . . . What’s the principle of the TV, madam? The vacuum tube, madam. And do you know what happens if you stick your head in a vacuum tube? I’ll tell you: you get your brains sucked out.”
– Edward Abbey, “Desert Solitaire”
Two years ago this week I tweeted that the COVID lockdowns were the implementation of the Green New Deal. This angered many skeptics who told me – “You are right about climate, but this virus is the real thing.”
Now I have climate skeptics angrily telling me that the latest mass-media induced hysteria is the real thing. I’ve been reading Edward Abbey for forty-five years and haven’t watched television for almost thirty years. If everyone took Edward Abbey’s advice the world would be a much better place.
